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'''Wikispooks is only very occasionally reported by {{ccm}}.'''
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==2022==
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[[2022]] so far has been a busy year. February was the second busiest month in the site's history, with over 3000 visits/day. The page count has climbed only slowly, as we've continued to focus on improving page quality rather than quantity, and the percentage of pages with descriptions surpassed 53%, while the proportion of [[stubs]] is now below 39%. The site's lists of [[WEF Young Global Leaders]] and [[WEF Global Leaders for Tomorrow]] were the most highly trafficked pages from January through July.
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[[image:record low bounce rate 2022-05-09.png|right|300px|A record low bounce rate for the site in early May 2022|thumb]]
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=== August ===
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The site surpassed 30,000 pages.
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=== May ===
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A busy month after the Malone Institute linked in the site as a source for its lists of [[WEF Global Leaders for Tomorrow]] and [[WEF Young Global Leaders]].
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=== March ===
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As awareness of the role of the [[Bilderbergers]] and WEF in COVID-19 has grown, so has traffic to the [[WEF/GLT]] and [[WEF/YGL]] pages. The site had 112,267 visits this month, the second busiest month ever, behind May 2020.
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===28 February ===
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Widespread sharing of a links on [[telegram]], especially to [[WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow 1993]], lead to the busiest ever day from [[Germany]], with a total of 1,155 visits from that country (20%). It also meant that February 2022, with a grand total of 99,298 visits, was the busiest month since July 2020, and the 4th busiest to date.
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===21 February ===
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A fix to [[Template:Concept]] pushed the proportion of [[pages without descriptions]] below 50% for the first time ever, down from 55% at the start of the year. The average visit length so far this year is 260s, up from 203s last year.
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===18 January ===
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[[image:Wikispooks search Traffic 2022-01-25.png|right|300px|thumbnail|Search traffic on 25 January 2022]]
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The site has had a busy month so far; both the number of visitors and the length of visits continues to rise. Average visit length in 2021 was 203 seconds, a 50% increase over 2020, and visit length is continuing its upward trajectory in 2022.
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==2021==
 
==2021==
===17 February===
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[[image:record_average_visit_length_in_2021.png|300px|right]]
The proportion of pages with a description surpassed 1/3 for the first time ever.<ref>7880/23619 Pages</ref>
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In [[2021]], most editors have concentrated on improving the quality of existing pages rather than adding new ones. The year saw a steady rise in both average visit length and #pageviews/visit.
  
==2020==
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===20 November===
[[image:WIkispooks-traffic-2016-2020.png|left|400px|thumb|2020 was Wikispooks busiest year ever, as remarked upon by {{ccm}}.<ref name=bi/>
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Today we concluded the [[Institute for Statecraft]]/[[Integrity Initiative]] documentation project. Each 157 of the documented members of this [[deep state faction]] has a page of their own, and there is a page for each of the [[Integrity Initiative Leak]]s, and one for each leaked document.
After 10 years at the helm, [[User:Peter]] announced his retirement, passing control of the site to [[User:Robin]], who set up a [https://www.patreon.com/wikispooks page on Patreon] to crowdfund the site. As [[COVID-19]] came to dominate the news agenda of {{ccm}}, traffic went up to the site, which received 1.085 million visits in 2020.
 
  
===26 June===
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===10-17 November===
Buy the "first they ignore you" dictum, Wikispooks advances to stage #2 with an article from [[Business Insider]], published without contacting anyone from the website, entitled ''Conspiracy-theory encyclopedia Wikispooks is thriving during the coronavirus pandemic, seeing huge traffic gains from search engines''.<ref name=bi>https://www.insider.com/conspiracy-theory-wikispooks-huge-traffic-increase-coronavirus-data-2020-6</ref>
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Some hours after [https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/digital-vaccine-passports-surveillance-capitalism-covid-gates/ this page] linked to the site<ref>the [[years of lead]] link</ref>, Wikispooks was forced offline by a week long DDoS attack. The webhost reported it as 24Gb/s.
  
===26 May===
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===20 October===
Exactly 10 years since the site went online, it experienced its busiest week ever after renewed interest in [[Lori Klausutis]]. A new daily record of 8900 visitors on 24 May was broken on 26 May when the site saw 9598 visitors.  
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[[image:2021-10_increasing_time_per_visit.png|450px|right]]
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A look at average visit time monthly shows that average visit length is now just under 4 minutes, almost twice what it was in November 2019.
  
===10 May===
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===24 September===
* The site surpassed 25,000 pages.
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[[image:4.7_actions_per_visit.png|512px|right]]
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Until 2021, actions/visit was generally less than 3, and never more than 4. Commensurate with this year's focus on improving page quality, today had an unprecedented 4.7 actions/visit.
  
===31 January===
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===4 August===
Searches on "[[Eric Ciaramella]]" lead to the busiest day on record, with 8300 unique visitors.<ref>http://archive.ph/wip/4I7xc</ref>
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The site now has 10,000 pages with descriptions. (Only 15,000 to go ...) Descriptions are particularly useful, since they automatically appear in multiple pages, so adding one description can improve many pages at once.
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===26 July===
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As if to underline yesterday's thought, the site was offline for 8 hours after an unidentified technical problem believed unrelated [[Cyber Polygon]].  
  
===25 January===
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===25 July===
The project to assign the missing nationalities to all Bilderbergers is all but completed, leaving just one who was "in attendance" -- [[James A. Blay]] -- still of unknown nationality.
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Today the proportion of pages with a description passed 40%, for the first time ever. Congratulations all round!<ref>9911/24718 pages</ref>
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The [https://wikispooks.com/backups/wikispooks-latest.zip backup file] reached 10GB today, which is not all that big nowadays - ''all supporters are encouraged to [[Project:Site Backups|download regular backups]] in case the site goes offline for any reason, which looks not unlikely in these uncertain times.
  
==2019==
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===10 July===
[[image:Wikispooks_traffic_December31_2019.png|right|thumbnail|Traffic graph at the end of December 2019]]
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[[image:2021-07-10-search-engine-traffic.png|right|thumb|360px|The first recorded day in which this site had more referrals from [[DuckDuckGo]] than [[Google]].]] The [https://wikispooks.com/piwik/index.php live statistics] revealed [[censorship by Google]], steadily increasing over the last few years, now at record levels - more visitors from [[DuckDuckGo]] than [[Google]], probably for the first time ever.
Wikispooks traffic fell at the beginning of the year, but climbed from June to September, after an upgrade to the hardware and software increased the site's responsiveness. It concluded the year with a global rank of around 220,000 and received around 664,000 visits in 2019, up from 564,000 in 2018.
 
  
===December===
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===1 July===
* The site surpassed 10,000 [[people]] pages.
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Crowdfunding covered the webhosting bill of [[Wikispooks]] for the first time ever.
  
===September===
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===21 June===
* Traffic for 11 September, 2019 was over 5000 unique visitors, and for the following day it was over 6000 visitors, the busiest on record.<ref>http://archive.fo/ZdeCV</ref>
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For the first time in many years, the proportion of [[stub]] pages on the site went below 50%, at around 11,500 pages!
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[[image:2021-04-12-search-engine-traffic.png|right|thumb|360px|In Spring 2021, Google is believed to have stepped up its censorship of this site; at the start of the year, around 1/2 of the site's traffic came from Google, by mid year, that proportion had shrunk to around 1/4.]]
  
===March===
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===17 February===
* The proportion of [[stubs]] went below 60% for the first time in years.<ref>https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Category:Stubs</ref>
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The proportion of pages with a description surpassed 1/3 for the first time ever.<ref>7880/23619 Pages</ref>
  
===10 January===
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===January===
*[[Arms for Libya 2.0‎‎]] became the site's 20,000<sup>th</sup> content page.
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The site had 84170 visitors in January, after which it was subjected to increasing censorship by [[Google]].
  
==2010 to 2018==
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==2010 to 2020==
  
 
===Wikispooks:History===
 
===Wikispooks:History===

Latest revision as of 22:52, 9 January 2023

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Wikispooks is only very occasionally reported by commercially-controlled media.

2022

2022 so far has been a busy year. February was the second busiest month in the site's history, with over 3000 visits/day. The page count has climbed only slowly, as we've continued to focus on improving page quality rather than quantity, and the percentage of pages with descriptions surpassed 53%, while the proportion of stubs is now below 39%. The site's lists of WEF Young Global Leaders and WEF Global Leaders for Tomorrow were the most highly trafficked pages from January through July.

A record low bounce rate for the site in early May 2022

August

The site surpassed 30,000 pages.

May

A busy month after the Malone Institute linked in the site as a source for its lists of WEF Global Leaders for Tomorrow and WEF Young Global Leaders.

March

As awareness of the role of the Bilderbergers and WEF in COVID-19 has grown, so has traffic to the WEF/GLT and WEF/YGL pages. The site had 112,267 visits this month, the second busiest month ever, behind May 2020.

28 February

Widespread sharing of a links on telegram, especially to WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow 1993, lead to the busiest ever day from Germany, with a total of 1,155 visits from that country (20%). It also meant that February 2022, with a grand total of 99,298 visits, was the busiest month since July 2020, and the 4th busiest to date.

21 February

A fix to Template:Concept pushed the proportion of pages without descriptions below 50% for the first time ever, down from 55% at the start of the year. The average visit length so far this year is 260s, up from 203s last year.

18 January

Search traffic on 25 January 2022

The site has had a busy month so far; both the number of visitors and the length of visits continues to rise. Average visit length in 2021 was 203 seconds, a 50% increase over 2020, and visit length is continuing its upward trajectory in 2022.

2021

Record average visit length in 2021.png

In 2021, most editors have concentrated on improving the quality of existing pages rather than adding new ones. The year saw a steady rise in both average visit length and #pageviews/visit.

20 November

Today we concluded the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative documentation project. Each 157 of the documented members of this deep state faction has a page of their own, and there is a page for each of the Integrity Initiative Leaks, and one for each leaked document.

10-17 November

Some hours after this page linked to the site[1], Wikispooks was forced offline by a week long DDoS attack. The webhost reported it as 24Gb/s.

20 October

2021-10 increasing time per visit.png

A look at average visit time monthly shows that average visit length is now just under 4 minutes, almost twice what it was in November 2019.

24 September

4.7 actions per visit.png

Until 2021, actions/visit was generally less than 3, and never more than 4. Commensurate with this year's focus on improving page quality, today had an unprecedented 4.7 actions/visit.

4 August

The site now has 10,000 pages with descriptions. (Only 15,000 to go ...) Descriptions are particularly useful, since they automatically appear in multiple pages, so adding one description can improve many pages at once.

26 July

As if to underline yesterday's thought, the site was offline for 8 hours after an unidentified technical problem believed unrelated Cyber Polygon.

25 July

Today the proportion of pages with a description passed 40%, for the first time ever. Congratulations all round![2] The backup file reached 10GB today, which is not all that big nowadays - all supporters are encouraged to download regular backups in case the site goes offline for any reason, which looks not unlikely in these uncertain times.

10 July

The first recorded day in which this site had more referrals from DuckDuckGo than Google.

The live statistics revealed censorship by Google, steadily increasing over the last few years, now at record levels - more visitors from DuckDuckGo than Google, probably for the first time ever.

1 July

Crowdfunding covered the webhosting bill of Wikispooks for the first time ever.

21 June

For the first time in many years, the proportion of stub pages on the site went below 50%, at around 11,500 pages!

In Spring 2021, Google is believed to have stepped up its censorship of this site; at the start of the year, around 1/2 of the site's traffic came from Google, by mid year, that proportion had shrunk to around 1/4.

17 February

The proportion of pages with a description surpassed 1/3 for the first time ever.[3]

January

The site had 84170 visitors in January, after which it was subjected to increasing censorship by Google.

2010 to 2020

Wikispooks:History

For older News, see Wikispooks:History

References

  1. the years of lead link
  2. 9911/24718 pages
  3. 7880/23619 Pages
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